Vitor Negrete and Rodrigo
Raineri north side are to to try without oxygen! They are arriving this week
at Katmandu.

More soon....

05/16/2006 -
One more day of news at Camp 2

"A very sad
day"

At the
arrival to Camp 2, Vitor suffered the impact of several bad news. David
Sharp, a British climber with whom they shared a good time, died on
the mountain. Ravi Chandran, from Malaysia, had frostbite in his fingers
and was descending to get medical treatment.

Finally, the
depot where Rodrigo Raineri and Vitor Negrete stocked equipment and food had
been vandalized and was empty. Vitor and the Sherpa who was with him were
happy to get the solidarity of other climbers who lent a tent and food to
spend the night.

"All these
events hit on me a lot and I seriously thought of quitting and descend. But
Ravi asked me to make it to the summit for them. The personnel lent
equipment and food to spend the night today (05/16). So I decided to climb
to Camp 3 tomorrow (17/05) around lunch time (Nepal time)", said Vitor
Negrete.

Vitor
explains that Camp 3 at 8,300 meters "is a temporary camp. Once there, rest
and if the weather is good I depart around nine in the evening (around
midnight in Brazil) to the summit. We have another depot at C3 with
equipment and food. I hope everything is in order there. If the depot up
there in the summit has also been vandalized, it will complicate our project
a lot".

Rodrigo
Raineri is at Base Camp (5,200 meters) recovering from the climb he did last
week when he got to Camp 2 and can't take off to the summit because of bad
weather. The plan is that Rodrigo will attempt the summit around May 25.

The Brazilian
duo has climbed together for more than 15 years and they were the first ones
to get to the summit of Aconcagua (6,962m) by the South Face - considered
one of the more technical and difficult in the world - and they are also the
first from Brazil to get to the same summit during the winter .

There are on
the North Face of Mount Everest (Tibet) and their objective is to reach the
8,850 meters of altitude without using supplementary oxygen cylinders, an
unheard of fact among Brazilian climbers.

Last season,
with totally adverse weather conditions, Vitor Negrete reached the top of
the world on June 2 using O2. Rodrigo used the oxygen mask only from Camp
3, but he turned around at 50 meters from the summit, for safety measures.

Translated
from Portuguese by Jorge Rivera

05/17/2006 -
Vitor Negrete starts his summit attack to Mount Everest

"Don't worry,
I'll be careful!"

After
yesterday's news (05/16) Vitor Negrete climbed to Camp 3 on the North Face
of Mount Everest, at 8,300 meters and, now with a better mood, decided to do
the summit attack without the support of the Sherpa who is with him.

Talking
quickly by satellite phone he asked for calm and support from everybody, "I
am climbing totally alone. Without O2, without Sherpa and without phone,
because the battery of the satellite phone is almost dead. I promise I will
be very careful; the weather is improving and the forecasted window should
open now".

Following the
attack to the summit of his partner, Rodrigo Raineri is in Base Camp and has
planned to start his push around the 25th, when another window is
forecasted. He is following the steps of Vitor Negrete by a phone which was
provided by Gheorge Diamarescu who has made it to the summit of Chomolungma
several times.

"We were not
in synch in our acclimatization. When Vitor was fine I had trouble. When I
recovered he had a throat ache. So we decided that each one of us should go
to the summit when each of us were ready, independently from each other. So
our chances of having at least one Brazilian on the summit are better".

The Brazilian
duo has climbed together for more than 15 years and they were the first ones
to get to the summit of Aconcagua (6,962m) by the South Face - considered
one of the more technical and difficult in the world - and they are also the
first from Brazil to get to the same summit during the winter (Try On
Expedition I).

There are on
the North Face of Mount Everest (Tibet) and their objective is to reach the
8,850 meters of altitude without using supplementary oxygen cylinders, an
unheard of fact among Brazilian climbers.

Last season,
with totally adverse weather conditions, Vitor Negrete reached the top of
the world on June 2 using O2. Rodrigo used the oxygen mask only from Camp
3, but he turned around at 50 meters from the summit, for safety measures.

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